A leading film authority presents a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
In this tribute to actors of the silent silver screen, film scholar Jeanine Basinger profiles Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valintino, Mabel Normand, Keystone Kops, and several other almost-forgotten stars. Her biographical material is accompanied by insightful commentary and provocative black and white film stills. She also discusses ...
This extraordinary book--published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of American film and a 10-part PBS-TV series scheduled for the new year--surveys the phenomenon that is Hollywood, past and present. With more than 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, and including some never before published, this book celebrates the best ...
Basinger examines Hollywood's "women's films"- their individual stars and stories and the common threads that tie them together. The book looks into how, although the films may have contained liberating themes, they were all eventually resigned to a very fixed idea of "The Way Woman Ought To Be".
A reading of the World War II combat film. Discussing over 1000 movies, Jeanine Basinger covers in-depth the key examples of the genre and uses them to define the meaning of genre itself. From "Bataan" to "Battleground" to "The Dirty Dozen" to "Saving Private Ryan", the work traces the evolution of the combat genre, as its recurring characters, ...
The definitive book on the Frank Capra classic that has garnered an enormous cult following. Film historian Jeanine Basinger draws from the Capra archives to reveal all the elements of the film's production, reviews, new interviews with stars including Jimmy Stewart, and the shooting script in its entirety. Illustrated throughout with over 200 ...
Director of such often-revived films as "Winchester '73", "The Glenn Miller Story", and "El Cid", Anthony Mann made Westerns, noir pictures, and epics that are admired and studied by fans and scholars alike. He was an expert in the fundamental formal elements of cinema. Jeanine Basinger's "Anthony Mann", which places the director's visual style at ...
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